"Loves" in the darkness of Panchayat

In the 60s, a song was very popular in Burma, 'Fark Hai Fark Nepali'. The Burmese Nepalese thought that King Mahendra called upon the exiled Nepalese to return home through that song. Once Mahendra reached Burma on a state visit. He formally After invoking

, Burmese Nepalese rushed back to their old ways. Maya also kept asking Baama 'Where is our Nepal?'

At that time, Maya's family also decided to return to Nepal. After traveling seven days and seven nights by ship, they entered Nepal through Kolkata through the eastern route. V.No. The Burmese who came in the 2020s started clearing the forest and establishing settlements. Maya Gurung's family turned to Dhulabari.

The early days of the Gurung family were difficult. Maya, who passed her matric in Verma, fell on the shoulders of taking care of the family by asking rent in the hotel. One day, Raithane Chandrakumar Shrestha (Writer Ba) of Dhulabari asked the question, "Where is Nani Ghar?" How much have you studied?'' A confident Maya says, 'I come from Burma, I have passed matriculation there.' And Chandrakumar says, 'Does a person who has passed matriculation live like this? I will start teaching at school.' Maya's life took a new turn after meeting

writer Ba. Dhulabari was recruited as a teacher in Nimavi. Maya, who speaks sweet English, is equally adept at dancing and singing, will soon become well-known among the teachers. During her studies, she moved in with Bharat Gurung, a teacher from neighboring Jamirgarhi district.

An incident inspired him to join politics. The then Pradhan Panch Sitaram Bhattarai used to get confused by frequent transfers. She says that after that incident, she became interested in politics. She became the president of Dhulabari Village of Women's Organization in 2027, who became inclined towards politics while teaching.

It was not difficult for women of that time to come into politics, limited only to Chulochowka. However, the encouragement and inspiration of her husband Bharat and Shubhechchha helped her to enter politics. She started the politics course after eight years of teaching.

In the year 2029, writer Baa and her husband Bharat encouraged the Deputy Pradhan Panch of Dhulabari Village Panchayat to stand up. Without being told, Maya rose up and won by overwhelming votes. When the Deputy Prime Minister rose, the opposition sarcastically said 'Pothi Basyo'. Maya laughs remembering the past, "If the opposition had not campaigned for me like that, I would not have won." At that time it was difficult to overcome a male opponent. Because of her rebellious and fearless nature, the then administration sometimes accused her of helping the Jhapa Rebellion and sometimes of supporting the Congress, and she was arrested several times.

During the direct rule of Gyanendra Shah, 'Tike' of Mechinagar became the deputy chief. After democracy, Rajendra Lingden and other Panchs were impeached. However, no one drove him. "Once the Maoists came to ask for money, when I said come alone if you can, they got angry," says Maya, "don't be afraid."

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• • The country's first woman Pradhan Panch is Bhagiratha Neupane of Jhapa Barba. In 2029 Kattik, she created history by winning the village panchayat of Bharba.

She won the Vice Pradhan Panch on May 2, 2026 before becoming the Pradhan Panch. With the same enthusiasm, she rose to the Pradhan Panch and won with a majority.

vs. Born in Kanyam in Elam in 1980, Bhagiratha got married at the age of 10. V.No. She became a widow in 2010. After the sudden death of her husband Prajapati, the responsibility of raising 2 sons and 4 daughters fell on her shoulders. After the divorce made it difficult to live in the mountains, she came down on Wednesday to 6 Lalawala Chapar.

Suffering family, social oppression and injustice, she suddenly emerged in politics. "Even though he had a fingerprint, he was fearless, self-respecting and an eloquent speaker," Myla's son Kulprasad said, "that's why he was liked by the people and won the Panchayat twice."

Especially the political changes of 2017 opened political doors for Bhagiratha. When there was a movement against Mahendra's 'Ku', she stood up for the panchayat.

Bhagiratha entered active politics around 2020 when she was elected as the president of the women's organization. After that, she joined local and district organizations supporting panchayats and came close to district level leaders and intellectuals.

In the year 2024, Jhapa district was divided into 9 parts under the 'Gaon Fark Abhiyan' brought by the Panchayat system, which was led by Rambabu Prasain.

Bhagiratha, representing the women's organization in the village panchayats of Dhaijan, Dhulabari, Nakalbanda, Shantinagar and Bahundangi, says that Bhagiratha has been active in road, pani, school and overall social development and consciousness development. "After that political activism, he was elected as the vice-president in 2026 and as president in 2029," says Kulprasad.

She was an ex-officio member of the Zilla Panchayat, elected as the District President of the Women's Organization in the district level elections of the class organization in 2039. She was defeated in the national panchayat member election in 2043 general election.

Bhagiratha not only settled down on Wednesday, she surprised everyone by switching on electricity for the first time in her area. Around 2034, Pushpa Bhandari was an engineer and came to Bharbeda's electricity station. At that time, Bhagiratha blinked at the Wednesday. She retired from politics after the collapse of the Panchayat and passed away in December 2048.

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• • Women were rarely active in politics at that time. It was unimaginable for him to enter politics with his strength. So most women came into politics by chance. Like Bhagiratha, illiterate Jogamaya Thapa's life also got political coincidences. In the year 2033, she became the Pradhan Panch of border Jamirgarhi village panchayat.

According to Niroj Kattel, the author of the book '2028: Jhapa Rebellion's Narrative' written about the 'Jhapa Rebellion' which started in 2028, Karna Bahadur Gautam was the first target of the rebels on 2nd June 2028. He was also a neighbor of the then Pradhanpanch Bal Bahadur Thapa. Popular Pradhanpanch Bal Bahadur was also involved in the Communist Party underground, he was a leader at the district level. "The government at that time arrested many people on the charge of murdering Karna Bahadur Gautam, a businessman of landlord Raghuvir Budhathoki," Kattel said, "Pradhanpanch Thapa fell in that line."

According to Maila's son Pradeep, Jogamaya became a leader by circumstances. When the father was in jail, the people decided to make the mother a candidate instead of the father. Illiterate Jogmaga probably never dreamed of becoming a leader. However, sometimes unexpected things happen in people's lives. Jogamaya was taught to write names with charcoal on the wall of the house through the night before the nomination registration.

The boy Pradeep was closely watching the scene where the whole village was up in arms to make his mother a candidate in his father's place. He said, "Why did it look like charcoal was drawn on the wall, I only found out after my mother learned to write her name."

Jamirgarhi was also the base area of ​​communists. Communist leaders were coming and going from across Mechi. Jamirgarhi was the 'shelter' of leading communists like Radha, CP, Gopalkrishna Prasai. Bal Bahadur won the panchayat election in 2026 on the strength of the same communist support.

According to Leela Udasi, a leader of the Jhapa movement at the time and a senior advocate, Gautam was arrested by the police after his murder. He was the Pradhanpanch. When the next election came, Thapa was in jail. "Now there was a discussion about who should be elected, then Mrs. Jogmaya Thapa was elected," Udasi said, "She won." According to Udasi, Jogmaya was elected in the seat that Bal Bahadur was winning. She also won through leftist efforts and leftist wave.

Even though she did not know how to read, she was a leader in development work. According to Pradeep, even while in power, Jogamaya did nothing for him, neither did his father. They always considered politics as service. She became a candidate again for the second time as well. However, some wards of old Jamirgarhi were merged in Dhulabari and some in Chandragarhi, so the communist opinion was divided. Finally, Narayan Oli won the Pradhan Panch. She passed away in 2054.

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• • Dilkumari Shrestha was called 'Gai Amai' by her colleagues. His election symbol in the Zilla Panchayat elections was the cow, that's why. Later another nickname was added to her, Mechi-Ama. That mark also got him elected as the president of the Zilla Panchayat.

When women did not come out openly in the society and speak with fear, from that time Dilkumari became active in women's awakening and social activities for women's rights. She was also fearless and had a hokey nature.

Bhojpur Siddheshwar-5 Dam Bazar V.S. Born on October 25, 1970, she was married to Krishna Prasad Shrestha of Chainpur. She left the world on August 8, 2068 at the age of 98.

Around 2010, his family moved from Chainpur to Madhesh. By making Bhadrapur municipality a permanent place, she became active in social service and politics. In 2017, she became the president of Nari Shilpakala Kendra Jhapa, in 2018 the president of Nepal Women's Organization Jhapa, in 2019 she became the central member of Nepal Women's Organization.

In 2036, the then King Birendra nominated him as a member of the Raj Sabha because of his inclination towards Panchayat. She was probably the first woman to hold that position at the time. She became the central president of Nepal Women's Professional Organization in 2040 and was re-nominated by Birendra as a Raj Sabha Standing Committee member in 2041.

She has traveled to countries like Soviet Union, North Korea, China, Burma, Hong Kong, Thailand, Czechoslovakia.

Once upon a time there was a perpetual drought of female leadership in Jhapa. However, Dilkumari stood at the forefront challenging the society, she was also a rebel. It was in Jhapa that she challenged the society of that time by plowing for the first time. Chintamani Dahal, former head of Mechi Kapus, said, "She challenged the society by plowing at a time when plowing was considered a sin by women."